You know you have EVE ingrained intoyour god damn skull when you expect the fucking tooltip to show up showing the module information when you hover over one of the mods in the pic......god damnit I can't tell you how many times I have done that.

ARSED - What's up? Are you gonna come hang on our couch in the testagram? You guys should invite us down and we can bond by shooting raiden together.

Also, I ratted for about 7 minutes before I decided I do not, in fact, have the stomach for ratting in a super

ToAsT wrote:

It's when you try and roate ships in videos and screenshots that you need to start worrying, when you start doing to any image and video on the internet it may be time to seek professional help.

Also, I like the emergency cyno all the things to save my ass in the highs

I can't imagine rolling out any other way!

NotContinuum wrote:

Yeah, I almost did that too.

What is that? How do you not get ganked?And what kind of ticks are you pulling in?

That is a Nyx-Class Gallente Supercarrier. I did not get ganked because the system is empty (although there was a 100-strong hostile fleet in VFK at the time. I only got a 14m tick because I only stuck around for about 5-6 minutes.

I wonder what got him to resign.Or did he? Is he just taking "a break"?

I totally called this a month ago or whenever it was that he "temporarily" stepped down. he built a coalition out of every shitlord alliance that they beat, and he'd rather quit now than deal with all the internal politics required to maintain the coalition.

Looks like the new expansion drops on June 4th. Train Battlecruisers and Destroyers to V with all racial frigates to IV and cruisers to III for ultimate skill pointage. Also, BC V owns bones, never not train it.

+Griz wrote:

NotContinuum wrote:

I wonder what got him to resign.Or did he? Is he just taking "a break"?

I totally called this a month ago or whenever it was that he "temporarily" stepped down. he built a coalition out of every shitlord alliance that they beat, and he'd rather quit now than deal with all the internal politics required to maintain the coalition.

Yep. Looks like the price of Delve was an alliance with people you should never stop shooting. I'm heading down there soon to shoot peeps.

I understand the problem Montolio and TEST Leadership had, in regards to this. I liken it to The Clans from Mechwarrior.They have a bunch of fighters who want to fight, but no big enemies to fight. Roams and skirmishes only bandage the problem for so long. Eventually, those fighters want fleet battles and stories to rival the ones from the days of BoB. How are you going to placate them and keep them sharp while waiting for someone to fight? And are you ever really going to get someone to fight, since there aren't that many alliances who want to fight you or are big enough to fight in any serious way?

What are you going to do? TEST seems to feel that moving to different areas and being near other groups will encourage fights.Really though, it seems that the best fights are going to come between Goons and TEST because they have the manpower and the will to go at it.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good low sec pvp corp? I've been solo roaming in FW, getting in fights. I'd just like a more active corp, and solo/small gang low sec pvp is what I enjoy the most. Also, not concerned about sec status really.

Looks like the new expansion drops on June 4th. Train Battlecruisers and Destroyers to V with all racial frigates to IV and cruisers to III for ultimate skill pointage. Also, BC V owns bones, never not train it.

Why's that? Are there patch notes out? I can't hit eve-o from where I'm at.

Looks like the new expansion drops on June 4th. Train Battlecruisers and Destroyers to V with all racial frigates to IV and cruisers to III for ultimate skill pointage. Also, BC V owns bones, never not train it.

Why's that? Are there patch notes out? I can't hit eve-o from where I'm at.

Basically, the destroyers skill and the battlecruisers skill are going away and will be replaced by racial hull skills.

Destroyers will become Caldari/Gallente/Minmatar/Amarr Destroyers. Same for battlecruisers. If you train both to V you'll get all racials to V when the expansion drops and will gain about 6 million SP (and save yourself time if you ever need that V in the future).

The changes include a reduction to the electronics systems on the Support Cruisers (Lock range, scan resolution and sensor strength) to make them more vulnerable to electronic warfare and further distinguish them from their tech two counterparts.We are also giving some moderate improvements to the two lowest performing attack cruisers, the Stabber and Omen.

There is also a minor reduction to T1 Logi cruisers but it doesn't look to be enough to prevent their continued use.

The Navy Vexor also got a nice buff to drone usage if you're one of the groups doing 100mn Vexor fleets.

I've played EVE off an on for a number of years and now, again with renewed interest. I've generally just stuck to my own and would like to test the waters with fleet or gang play. What are the policies on joining the Ars corporations (links are down)?

I've played EVE off an on for a number of years and now, again with renewed interest. I've generally just stuck to my own and would like to test the waters with fleet or gang play. What are the policies on joining the Ars corporations (links are down)?

:spai:

Admission requirements can be found here for Ars Ex Discordia and Ex Coelis. Unfortunately your lack of posting history pretty much precludes you from joining either.

BTW to whoever owns the the EXCO wiki, it looks like it's been attacked by spam bots.

I've played EVE off an on for a number of years and now, again with renewed interest. I've generally just stuck to my own and would like to test the waters with fleet or gang play. What are the policies on joining the Ars corporations (links are down)?

:spai:

Admission requirements can be found here for Ars Ex Discordia and Ex Coelis. Unfortunately your lack of posting history pretty much precludes you from joining either.

BTW to whoever owns the the EXCO wiki, it looks like it's been attacked by spam bots.

I've pretty much played this game solo with the few exceptions of having some real life friends involved. Years ago we formed a small cruiser gang and tried to roam low-sec with no results. Didn't quite work out like we had planned, and they stopped playing altogether. We still watch the AT streams though, there's just something about this game...

It looks like they are trying to make them less slippery by raising the amount of time it takes them to get out of dodge and by reducing the time it takes to probe them down. I'm ambivalent about this change but the bomber FCs I know are excited about it.

Fujimaro wrote:

ClydeJr wrote:

Fujimaro wrote:

The time to lurk has come to an end.

I've played EVE off an on for a number of years and now, again with renewed interest. I've generally just stuck to my own and would like to test the waters with fleet or gang play. What are the policies on joining the Ars corporations (links are down)?

:spai:

Admission requirements can be found here for Ars Ex Discordia and Ex Coelis. Unfortunately your lack of posting history pretty much precludes you from joining either.

BTW to whoever owns the the EXCO wiki, it looks like it's been attacked by spam bots.

Thank you.

ARSED is a little more lenient then ExCo on Posting requirements. Our main requirement is that there be enough either here or at ArsClan.net to get an idea of your personality and display some involvement in the community. If you don't post here then how can we reasonably expect you to be a active poster on the corporate or alliance forums? The thing that caused our creation and continued existence is not just that we all play EVE but that we are all ArsTechnica community members who play EVE. With out that first requirement we might as well disband and join any EVE corp out there that would take us.

Guess I'm losing again. Oddly enough one of my characters is still in ExCo, but access to ExCo forums was removed a LONG time ago (basically last time I took a break), yet I still have ARSED forum access and I sold my only character in ARSED ( to another ARSED pilot ) almost two years ago I think

Things sure have changed a lot in the last couple of years, but on first look, I like the new Tier 3 BCs, they can really put out a lot of DPS if they survive long.

So has anyone had any interactions with the DUST 514 players yet? It's an interesting concept, but I'm wondering how well it actually works in practice.

If you're interested I can put you in touch with the head of the reddit/TEST Alliance DUST514 division. ARSED isn't doing a DUST group (not enough expressed interest) but we have an open invite for any of our pilots to join the reddit DUST group through their ARSED membership.

From what he's been complaining about, the game itself isn't as bad as everyone thought it would be but the integration with EVE isn't well thought out from the EVE side. On the DUST side of things it makes sense, and for small EVE groups it makes sense (the type who don't fly large ships in large numbers) but from the perspective of null sec EVE alliances that are large enough to be considered nation states it breaks down.

So in my time away from EVE, CCP upgraded the AI of all rats to a barely watered-down version of the Sleeper AI. Unfortunately, I discovered this the hard way while running a plex last night. As soon as my remote rep ship dropped drones and started repping my tank, every red plus on grid decided to primary the space priest. It was tackled and dead within a minute.

It looks like my old methods for bulldozing plexes won't work any more. I used to use a Broadsword or similar tank, remote-rep support battleship, and a third pure DPS ship. With the new AI, rats aggro rep ships and drones, so that makes my remote-rep BS unusable. How are folks running sites now? Throwing carriers at red pluses can't be the only option. Right?!